Los Angeles Fires destroy Heritage and Historic Sites
On January 7, 2025, devastating fires started in Los Angeles county, with the Eaton Fire killing five people and causing...
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Lessons from 2024 to 2025 Cultural Heritage Safety
In 2024, our posts focused on significant events and issues that arose online, without following a specific objective, but rather...
EU and Climate Change Risk to Cultural Heritage
An April 2024 report from the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) highlights the growing threat that climate change poses to...
ProCultHer Report: The European Methology to Cultural Heritage in Emergency
The European Union project called PROCULTHER (Protecting Cultural Heritage from the Consequences of Disasters) aims to protect cultural heritage from...
What is a CWA for Historic Areas Resilience?
On September 2022 the CWA 17727 "City Resilience Development - Guide to combine disaster risk management and climate change adaptation...
Fire Safety of Historical Wood: a Workshop in Rome
On August 30th, 2018. The wooden chest of drawers, with sculptural paintings of the Nativity and Saints Peter and Paul,...
Climate Change and Museums: a Book About Indoor Risks
Climate change, presumably, will affect the way buildings will be designed and managed. Also museums are challenged by such risk...
A EU Funded Course on Cultural Heritage Protection and Climate Change
In three weeks, between January and February 2019, the STORM Academy 2019 has been held in Rome, within the EU...
European Forum for Distaster Risk Reduction on Cultural Heritage Resilience
The European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction (EFDRR) forms the regional platform structure of Europe of the UNISDR, the U.N. ...
Europe Is Ready for Climate Impact. What about Cultural Heritage protection?
Expected annual damage to critical infrastructure in European regions, due toclimate change, by the end of the century (million EUR)...
Emergency Evacuation of Heritage Collections: an ICCROM-UNESCO Handbook
The protection of cultural heritage mainly aims to prevent any type of danger from posing an excessive risk to the...
Fire Risks and New Threats from Climate Change to Libraries and Archives
The European Environment Agency (EEA) has published in 2012 a document which is "an indicator-based assessment of past and projected...
STORM: an Horizon 2020 research project on heritage and environmental changes
STORM (Safeguarding Cultural Heritage through Technical and Organisational Resources Management) is a research and development project initiated by the European...
